Tenth class English – india vidya

Creative Writing (discourses): This section shows how creative you are to express. There are major, minor discourses. Again they are divided into Group-A and Group-B. Group-A will come in Paper-I and Group-B in paper-II. Major discourses contain 10 marks and have a
choice (one out of two).

Description is the basic major discourse. All the other discourses depend on that. So practice Description first. Description is nothing but describing the location and situation. We have
to give all the details: who are there, their features, their emotion, how is the location. Imagine the situation in your mind as a movie. Start describing one by one.

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Series of events described in an order becomes narrative. It becomes story if it has any twist. Giving the communication between two or more people in direct speech, one by one becomes conversation. If there is sudden twist in the conversation in a story mode it becomes Drama script. In Drama Script (Play) we have to mention their movements and feelings in brackets, shouting in
Capital letters.

A series of events from birth to death of a person becomes biography.

Addressing, Repetition of words or sentences, Rhetoric questions and concluding words are compulsory for Speech script.

What? Why? How? Who? Where? When? Which? are to be answered in Report/News report.

Minor discourses are short in nature to communicate much in less time. Layout, design, placing are more important here.

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Remember that Major discourses Story/Narrative, Conversation, Description, Drama Script/Play, Interview & Choreography, and minor discourses Message, Notice & Diary will be given from Text book contexts. After every reading of the lesson you have to imagine possible discourses and practice.

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There are two discourses to be written viz., Major Discourse and Minor Discourse. The following items may be asked under this section- Essay / Narration, Biography, Speech on a specific topic, Letter- formal or
informal, Notice writing, Diary writing, Debating, Writing Invitation card,
Description of a place / incident / event, Play script, Interview, Personal profile, Poster, Conversation, Review, etc.

In writing discourses, you should be careful about the three main fields, the theme, the content and the format.

Mind that if you enjoy reading various texts, you will definitely fare the questions efficiently. Let’s take up debating and arguing as a discourse, you have to follow a set of rules.

Do’s: Firstly, you need two teams: The proposition team and the opposition team.

Then you need something to argue. This is called motion. The proposition team starts. The first speaker has to declare what the motion is about. The opposition team goes next. The other speakers take turns.

The last speaker on each team has to sum up their team’s main argument.

How to write a Play Script?

A script is a piece of writing in the form of drama. A script consists of dialogue – what the characters say, and Stage directions- instructions to the actors and director.

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